Galapagos Tortoises in Nature

Giant tortoises from the Galapagos Islands and other regions, exhibiting their presence in lush landscapes and sandy habitats.

Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Santa Cruz Island. Galapagos Giant Tortoise surveys the landscape.

Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Santa Cruz Island. Galapagos Giant Tortoise surveys the landscape.

Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus), Female. The Orianne Indigo Snake Preserve, Telfair County, Georgia, USA. Digitally Altered.

Florida Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) male, native to the southeastern United States

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Galapagos tortoise cools off in a swamp in the Santa Cruz highlands.

Ecuador, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands National Park, Giant Tortoise (Geochelone elephantopas) at The Tortoise Reserve

Land Tortoise, Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Aldabra giant Seychelles tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea), Anse Takamaka, Mahe, Republic of Seychelles, Indian Ocean, Africa

Pinta Island Galapagos Tortoise (Geochelone nigra abingdoni), Lonesome George, the last survivor of his race, Darwin Reserve Station, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Ecuador, Galapagos, Santa Cruz. Galapagos Giant Tortoise (WILD: Geochelone nigrita, endemic)

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Giant tortoise, Charles Darwin Research Station, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Geochelone elephantophus vandenburghi) Alcedo Volcano crater floor, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

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Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Geochelone elephantopus porteri). Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands.

Galapagos Giant Tortoise, Chelonoidis nigra, Galapagos Islands, Galapagos National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Pacific Ocean, Ecuador,

galapagos giant tortoise geochelone nigra santa cruz island, galapagos

Striped Mud Turtle (Kinosternon baurii) Central Florida

Florida box turtle along trail, Sandfly Island, Everglades National Park, Everglades City, Florida, USA

Aldabra giant tortoises (Geochelone gigantea), endemic, Curieuse Island, Seychelles, Africa

Galapagos Tortoise, Tampa Zoo, United States of America

Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Geochelone elephantopus). Galapagos Islands.

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Nord, Lille, France, Europe

Ecuador, Galapagos. Santa Cruz Island. El Chato reserve for Giant tortoise

Galapagos Giant Tortoises mating (Geochelone elephantophus vandenburghi)Alcedo Volcano crater floor, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. One of 11 sub-species survising in the islands. food i

Turtle Giant sea turtle underwater in ocean in the Hawaii, USA Copyright: xZoonar.com/GalynaxAndrushkox 20612427

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Galapagos giant tortoise. Genovesa Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

A Giant tortoise is moving through the forest in the highlands of Santa Cruz Island (Indefatigable) in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Aldabra giant tortoise, Waikiki, Hawaii. Native to Madagascar, tortoises can live to a 200 years old.

Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) in the forest, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos.

Florida Softshell Turtle Florida Softshell Turtle digging a hole to lay its eggs Copyright: xZoonar.com/SvetlanaxFootex 10652912

Giant tortoise, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Leopard Tortoise (Geochelone pardalis) covered with mud, Addo National Park, South Africa

Honu sea turtle headed back to the ocean after night on beach

Galapagos giant tortoise bathing Galapagos

Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) on shore at sunset near Kona, Big Island, Hawaii

Mountain lion, cougar (Felis concolor) sniffing soft-shelled turtle controlled situation Minnesota

Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Galapagos tortoise covered with plants in a lagoon

Galapagos giant tortoises eating Galapagos

Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Geochelone nigra) smiling, walking toward camera, Alcedo Volcano, Isabella Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Loggerhead Sea Turtle (C. caretta) nesting on Beach, Sodwana Bay NP, Natal, RSA

Florida Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) at burrow, Orianne Indigo Snake Preserve, Georgia

Giant turtle at giant turtle sanctuary, Changu Island, Prison Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa

Tortoises in the wild in Turkey

Green sea turtles resting on a beach Sand Island Hawaii

green turtle chelonius mydas female in morning light after laying eggs on beach ascension island

Chelonia mydas agassizi, Eastern Pacific green turtle, galapagos green turtle (Chelonia mydas agassizii), Pacific green turtle, Eastern Pacific green turtle

Snapping turtle shell covered in dirt while nesting in Framingham, MA

Cooter turtle, turtles basking in sun.

closeup of african spurred tortoise or geochelone sulcata

Galapagos green turtle (Chelonia mydas agassisi), Puerto Egas, Santiago Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Galapgos Tortoise Mouth Open. A dome shaped Galapagos tortoise opens wide. Galapagos tortoises have evolved into the largest land tortoises in the world due to the relative abundance of food on the islands, the low degree of competition with other species, and, most importantly, the lack of predators. Beginning in approximately the 1600s, however, man began to hunt and collect tortoises for food and significantly reduced the populations. The tortoises are currently protected, but three sub-sp

Giant tortoises at La Vanille Nature Park, Mauritius Island, Africa

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Wild Galapagos giant tortoise (Geochelone elephantopus) at Urbina Bay, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

Cazuela & Roca Union race of Galapagos Tortoise, Geochelone nigra, Giant Tortoise Breeding Center, Isabela Island, Galapagos, Ecuador

Large turtle breeding areas within the zoo. The style and color of the carapace is unusual.

Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) laying on a beach, French Guiana

Portrait of two Galapagos giant tortoises at Galapagos

Tortoises Mating

Galápagos Giant Tortoise, Chelonoidis nigra, Galapagos National Park, Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, America

Volcan Alcedo Giant Tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra vandenburghi) juvenile, Alcedo Volcano, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

A rare photo of a Florida snapping turtle out in the open on Beach Road, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Found only in Florida and Georgia, this species is related to the common snapping turtle. It is considered a dangerous turtle because it can snap very quickly with its extremely strong jaws. Its tail, which is almost as long as its shell, has saw-edges along the top. The shell also has rough points down the middle. The shell is tan to dark brown and may have green algae growing on it. It can grow to 17 inches long and weigh 45 pounds. Snapping turtles usually live in ponds under the shadows and dont like to rest in the sun like most turtles. They eat almost anything: water bugs, fish, lizards, small birds, mice, plants and even dead animals.

Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), Carcass Island, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom, South America

Galapagos tortoise or Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra), Denis Island, Seychelles, Africa

Galapagos Giant Tortoises (Geochelone elephantophus vandenburghi) Alcedo Volcano crater floor, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) female with flipper over face, Falkland Islands

Berlandier's Tortoise South Texas USA

Sea turtles on the coast, Kahana, Maui, Hawaii, USA

Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas), Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies

Saddleback Galapagos Tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra hoodensis), Espanola Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Sudan. Khartoum. Khartoum Zoo. Tortoise. 1936, Sudan, Khartoum

the tortoises are waiting on the waters edge

Olive Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) females returning to sea after laying eggs, Ostional Beach, Costa Rica

European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) descending into the water, France

Forest Elephants, (Loxodonta cyclotis) in forest around Dzanga Bai Clearing, Central African Republic, Africa.

Volcan Alcedo Giant Tortoise (Geochelone nigra vandenburghi), Alcedo Volcano crater floor, Isabella Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

South America, Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin Station, giant tortoises

Africa, Guinea_Bissau, Green sea turtle in sand

High angle view of turtle crawling on sand at beach during sunny day, Seychelles

Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Geochelone elephantophus vandenburghi) Alcedo Volcano crater floor, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Leatherback Sea Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) female crawls back to the sea after laying eggs, Shell Beach, Guyana

African Spurred Tortoise

A Giant tortoise in the highlands of Santa Cruz Island (Indefatigable) in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

Snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina, basking on log, with red-bellied cooters, Psuedemys rubiventris, Maryland Date:

Austria, Vienna, Zoo Schoenbrunn, Tiergarten, turtle

Krefft's River Turtle (Emydura kreffti) surfacing to breathe, Australia

Gopher Tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, at mouth of burrow Collier Co., FL

Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), west of Harper Dry Lake, Mojave Desert, California

Red-footed tortoise walking on stones St Lucia

Turtles turtles on a tree trunk in the water

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Volcan Alcedo Giant Tortoise (Geochelone nigra vandenburghi) near fumarole, Isabella Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Roaming freely on Isabela Island in the Galapagos, one finds this giant tortoise in the wild.

Volcan Alcedo Giant Tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra vandenburghi), Alcedo Volcano, Isabela Island, Ecuador

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